title: The complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered butterfly Luehdorfia taibai Chou (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae).
abstract: We have determined the complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered butterfly, Luehdorfia taibai. The total lenth of the L. taibai mitogenome is 15,553 bp with 81% A + T content. It consists of 13 protein-coding, 22 tRNA, 2 rRNA genes and an A + T-rich region. All the protein-coding genes used ATN as start codon and TAA as stop codon, except for COI gene, which used CGA as start codon. The A + T-rich region was 939 bp in lenth with 95% A + T content. L. taibai mitogenome contained an extra tRNA(Leu), located from 191 bp to 259 bp, of which function was not clear.
authors.affiliation: College of Life Sciences, Northwest University , Xi'an , China and.
authors.forename: Xing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lian-Xi
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Peng-Fei
authors.forename: Wu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Wang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kai
authors.forename: You
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ping
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D007915:Lepidoptera / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012343:RNA, Transfer